Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every other State, the New Jersey Legislature fussed and fiddled over a stack of legislative trivialities with which its critics contend it should not concern itself. Passed were bills to license barbers, to accept Grover Cleveland's birthplace at Caldwell as public property, to register lodge emblems. Though it ducked a sales tax and beat a horse racing & betting bill. its more important enactments followed a national trend. As in three other States, it required automobiles to be equipped with safety glass in the near future. As in 33 other States, it took control of beer sales...
...years to show where I ever initiated a dispute. I had the greatest esteem for the Senator from New Mexico. Why, I had so high a regard for his character and intelligence that I advocated his appointment to the President's Cabinet and urged him to accept the position of Secretary of the Interior...
Berlin newsorgans picked out with bold-face type last week certain phrases in a speech by Nazi Wilhelm Kube. Provincial Governor of Berlin & Brandenburg, which sounded like a hint that pudgy little Chancellor Adolf Hitler could easily be persuaded to accept a crown...
...appreciate most sincerely the great honor of being elected President of Harvard University. The position is one of such tremendous responsibility that no one could hesitate to accept, if the Governing Boards asked for his services. I have had the good fortune to be connected with Harvard during almost the entire period of President Lowell's administration,--first as a student and later as a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Thus, I have had the opportunity of seeing his plans unfold and have witnessed the revolution which has taken place in the attitude of the student body...
...French, by tactful Alfred the Seater so that Cordell Hull of Tennessee (Etats Unis) sat at the end of a row, before, not next to, the kinky-polled delegates from Addis Ababa (Ethiopie). The League of Nations organizing committee invited 67 nations but Panama was too poor to accept. Among the official delegates is one Chief of State: President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland. There are eight Prime Ministers, 20 Foreign Ministers, 80 assorted Finance and other Cabinet Ministers and heads of central banks. Potent foreign statesmen in London are by no means limited to the official delegates. At least...